Use onscreen keyboard

Open, close, resize keyboard

To open the keyboard, just touch an area where you can enter text or numbers.

To close the keyboard so you can see other parts of the screen, touch .

To make the keyboard larger, turn your phone horizontally. If your screen doesn’t rotate, check your auto-rotate setting.

TipIf you installed other keyboards, you'll see next to the navigation buttons when you're typing. To switch to a different keyboard, touch .

Type special characters

Touch & hold a key to see related special characters. For example:

  • Touch & hold . to see other punctuation marks.
  • Touch & hold e to see é and 3.
TipTo insert a period followed by a space, touch the spacebar twice quickly.

Capitalize letters

To type in ALL CAPS, touch twice, quickly, so you see . Touch it once more to turn ALL CAPS off.

To change capitalization of a word you've already typed:

  1. Select the word.
  2. Touch until you see the capitalization you want: first letter only, ALL CAPS, or lowercase.

Use glide typing

You have two options for entering text: type one letter at a time (multi-touch typing) or slide your finger through all the letters in a word using one continuous motion (glide typing). Start typing either way and switch whenever you like.

When you're using glide typing, you can:

  • Type a word. Drag your finger over the letters in the word.
  • Enter apostrophes in common words. Drag through the letters and the apostrophe is automatically inserted.
  • Add a space. There's no need to use the space bar. Just lift your finger and start the next word.

You can disable glide typing.

Get suggestions

Use suggestions to type faster.

When you're typing, you'll see a list of suggested next words above the keys:

  • Touch a word in the list to insert it in your text.
  • If you don’t like a suggested word, touch & hold it, then drag it to .

You can limit or turn suggestions off.

Spell check and auto correct

Misspelled words are automatically corrected as you type.

To prevent that word from being auto-corrected again, add it to your dictionary by touching the word in the list of suggestions above the keys.

If auto-correction is turned off, you can still check spelling:

  1. After you're done typing, review your text; misspelled words (and words not in your dictionary) are underlined.

  2. Touch an underlined word:

    • If the word is spelled correctly, touch it in the suggestion bar.
    • If the word is misspelled, select the correct word in the suggestion bar or type the correction.

Type in multiple languages

If you have added multiple languages as a system language in your phone settings, keyboards and text suggestion are available for those languages:

  • When using a keyboard language other than your primary system language, available keyboard languages are shown on the spacebar.
  • To toggle between languages, touch .
  • To see a list of available keyboards, touch & hold or the spacebar.

You can add keyboards for other languages.